new colleague = more learning for me?

loads of changes are taking place this month at work.....with the departure of faz and desmond, we had two new staff on board....one turned out to be just a rich tai tai who is teaching just to keep herself busy while the other is supposed to have a degree in ech like me....was looking forward to meeting the latter coz i thought for once, there can be someone that i can look up to and learn something new from..was very impressed by her at first coz she is very articulate and carries herself very well...however after observing her this entire week, i must say that i am kinda of disappointed....what surprised me was that despite being in this line for about seven years, she doesn't know how to do a lesson plan...guess jg tends to pamper their staff by already pre planning all their lessons...all their teachers need to do is just take and go...even the songs they sing in class comes from a cd coz she is kind of lost without that cd to sing songs....hmmm...on friday, i took a sneak peak at her lesson plan that she was planning...she actually had to google to find out the song lyrics for the song 'we're going to the zoo'...for all those who are not in this line, i consider that song a rather basic ech song that an experienced teacher shd know....it is like googling to find the lyrics of baa baa black sheep...hmmm...i know i am being a little too critical over here but then i really wonder if her cv is actually real....hmmm.....

decision made and very relieved

it is final.....i have made my decision...i have turned down the offer...reason being is that the role that was offered is similar to my role at kids empire previously and most importantly, the pay package that was offered wasn't that fanstatic...i dun think that amt of money is worth that amt of work that i will need to put in so decided to turn it down..in a way, i feel relieved..honestly i would have taken up that role if the pay package was better...i may not like the role but i would still do it if the money is good coz i mean after all, i have done it before....but now with this miserable pay package all the additional stress is not worth it...disappointed i am but then on the other hand, this could be a blessing in disguise for me...i am just going to stay positive and enjoy what i am doing now with the kids.....

time to seriously think

i have been just offered a promotion....boss is promoting me to be the principal of the centre....there will be a pay increase but of course nothing comes free in this world...it comes with some additional responsibilities...not sure if i shd take it up though coz i had a really scary experience in my previous workplace....but then on the other hand, that was more than 3 yrs ago and i do feel slightly more ready now emotionally...time to weigh the pros and cons now...hmm

terrible time at work

i am sooo exhausted....i really do hate holiday programmes...there are simply too many children and it is a mixed aged group...terrible....this terrible workload has caused one of my collagues to resign...and i know there are more to come....quite demoralising to see people leaving one by one...i foresee by the end of the year, the only ones left would be the very people who wrote the curriculum at first....i think boss is getting a little worried so she has been going around and see if everyone is ok so far...most of us are complaining that there is simply too much to do.....come next year, i wonder what it will be like..i only hope the changes are for the better...

hmm

boss approached me todae...discussed some plans for growth for the school which indirectly means that there are plans for some form of career advancement for me....mixed feelings at the moment..i am not sure if i am ready to move forward....but this also means more money is likely to come in and a better profile in my cv....i will wait and see first.....then decide later

finally some time alone

yes yes daddy went for some charity event organised by the police so i am alone at hm..the good news is my mil is going out soon...i saw her taking her clothes to the toilet to shower which means i dun have to see her face later....i know i am pretty mean to say that but sometimes she really drives me up the wall....recently when i was on leave, the minute she knew i was on leave, she left the housework to me..which means now there is this equation, me on leave/not working=do the housework...well i dun mind this if i am physically at home...what irks me is that she would actually leave the chores till whatever time i come home....but again i cant complain to anyone....if i tell daddy, he will either A) do the chores for me so that i wont be upset but = mil black face coz i got her son to do it or B) tell me dun do lo then i wont be stressed out which = bad choice coz in the end i will still do it coz if i dun do it my mil will start doing it with a black face...either way it is a lose lose situation so i just have to keep doing it i guess...another irritating thing that happened on sat, by the way i dun work on sats, she will put the clothes in the machine (i do the soaking of clothes the previous night) and when the machine stops, she will take all the washed clothes out but leave them in a pail so that when i wake up, i will need to hang it out....it is a very funny habit of leaving half done chores around and the most positive thing i can think of is that she forgot to hang it out and is not purposely leaving it for me to do....that is the stress of living with mils!..remember ppl, no matter how nice ur mil seems at first, there is always a monster hidden inside waiting to be unleash...i predict worse days ahead coz i understand that the bag of rice aka my bil is going on a holiday with his friends which means mil will be in a bad mood coz her precious is leaving on a jet plane and she is soooo lonely.....

work updates now....hmmm....more or less i am mentally prepared that it is going to be one rough ride from next week onwards....some teachers r on leave (read my lips: the gay one) so i would have to combine classes...my new programme is also starting which means i have more teaching sessions in a week....holiday programme is going to unleash its fury soon...thank god i am only taking tues and thurs afternoons this time..in short, i am not going to think too much abt it...i am done with lesson preparation so i just have to close my eyes and teach and ignore what else that is happening....

that is it, i am done with updates..which means my life revolves around avoiding my mil and work....wow! what a fulfilling life i am leading...

finally a short break for me

yes it is...finally a few days of breather for me...we have been so shorthanded that i have already been split up many times...finally term break is here for me to catch up on the things that i need to do and just basically rest before the june holidays come....i am not sure yet how the workload for the june holidays will be working out....boss did mention that they will probably split it up and everyone does teaching for the june holidays...which is good...better than the previous time where the holiday programme is only taught by the leap kids teachers...everything would fall on my shoulders...just when i thought i could sleep in this morning on the first day of my leave, i received an irritating email from a parent this morning....she claims that the food that the school serves during the snack time is very unhealthy....bloody woman...now on my off day, i got to call the school up and settle the problem....that is problem with the school's email system....it is practically that u are on call 24/7....and this stupid parent knows that i am on leave...idiot....what a mood spoiler....